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The United States and the European Union have signed up to a new transatlantic economic partnership at a summit in Washington. The pact is designed to boost trade and investment by harmonising regulatory standards, laying the basis for a US-EU single market.
The two sides also signed an Open Skies deal, designed to reduce fares and boost traffic on transatlantic flights.
But little of substance was agreed on climate change.
However, EU leaders were pleased that the US acknowledged (…)

Nobody seems to understand exactly what Bush means by "winning" in Iraq. Perhaps this is what he means:
We must completely rebuild the infrastructure...which we previously pormised to do and on which we wasted 10s of billions. Hell, the contractors who did the shoddy "work" have now even avoid income tax!
We’ll need to stop gun and drug smuggling, and the theft and sale of OIL on the black market. No problem!
We’ll need to get the 2 million Iraqi professionals who fled Iraq to return (…)

At the end of the third Reich as Russian armies surrounded Berlin and the Allies were approaching from the west both Herman Goering and Hienrich Himmler were both plotting to supplant Hitler. Was it power mad insanity? Were they such poor students of history? Did they not know that any leader that takes over after losing a war will have a tough time of it? At best he will have to face an angry constituency asking pointed questions and at worst face the hangman’s noose. I use the example of (…)

Since the early day of invading Iraq, the USA policy has been following the old invaders wisdom," divide and conquer". Thus they have divided the Iraqis according to two contradicting rules; sectarian groups as Sunnis , sheit, Christians, and ethnic groups as Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen,....
Among the Arabs the division rule was seatrain as Sunni and sheits, while among the Sunnis the rule is changed to Arab, Kurds and Turkmen. It is well known that the majority of the Kurds are Muslim Sunni, (…)

“It is truly frightening what is going on in this country.” - Ex. Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA)
Los Angeles, CA - It is one of the most visited sites in the U.S. The La Brea Tar Pits, aka “The Page Museum,” is located on famed Wilshire Boulevard, in an area known as the “Miracle Mile District.” Its 23 acres contain millions of fossils of prehistoric animals that were “trapped and preserved” in the asphalt between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, according to the institution. (1) The findings represent (…)

By John Lichfield in Paris Published: 25 April 2007
The French media is crammed with election coverage but has published, or broadcast, hardly a word on the topic that most obsesses the Paris media- political village.
Eleven days before the second round of the presidential election, a legally-enforced code of silence surrounds the state of relations between the front-runner, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his wife, Cécilia.
Mme Sarkozy, 49, briefly split with her husband two years ago and then (…)

Blair’s grey old, Ahrimanic Britain is becoming a place of regular show trials, the kind which befits the totalitarian state which it has become, particularly in the last ten years of his neocon brand of fascism.
Today, on evidence that a decade ago would have been thrown out as circumstantial, the latest in Blair’s show trials ended with five Muslims being convicted of a bomb plot conspiracy. These days the judges know better than to challenge politicians. The politicization of the (…)

It is not well known but there is a secret society at work in America today, No not the Masons the Trilateralist’s or the Rand Corporation. This secret confederation it is so secret in fact that some of the members don’t even know they’re members themselves. The have no conscious memories of their initiation or of their oath. The neophytes chant the mantras and learn and repeat the gospels hoping to rise to a level of prominence in The Ancient Mystic Order of The Rah Rah Society.
The lower (…)

WE, THE TAXPAYERS, WANT AND DESERVE ANSWERS:
Case Exemplifies Unbridled and Misused Power by DA’s office and others involved in Dallas, Texas Justice Resulting in expensive cases of Incarcerated Innocence. (STATE OF TEXAS v. LAKEITH AMIR-SHARIF)
Our system of justice is in obvious and desperate need of repair when the "TRUTH" is treated as a problem in need of a solution, and our solution is to eliminate truth as a prerequisite to arrest, indictment and conviction of INNOCENT citizens. (…)

Today a woman called me. She saw our chapter’s web site, and reached me as the contact person. She left a simple message on my answering machine, telling me that her son was headed to his third deployment.
I spoke to her a little while ago, and it was hard to hold the tears back until I was done. She could not hold hers back. She told me about her son. He deployed early in the war, and the first night he was there, he was deployed on night patrol, not in a tank or any armored vehicle, but (…)